Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although few U. S. readers are likely to take Co-Op as much more than an ingenious tract, it plainly reveals the source of Sinclair's international reputation. With a gift for simplifying complex political questions, he writes in a field that interests politically-conscious Europeans, and one which few U. S. novelists have touched, Bitterly resenting the neglect of his achievements by serious U. S. critics, Upton Sinclair usually counters by mentioning the wide circulation of his books abroad. The Jungle is the most widely-read U. S. novel since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Oil has been...
...long and complex annals of big-league baseball, most famed recovery was that made by the Boston Braves...
...Edward Frankland Armstrong, president of the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, said: "Food is the first of all the weapons of preventive medicine and it must be the function of the agriculturists in the near future to grow complete foods and not mere market produce. Life is so complex that we have forgotten how entirely food is its foundation and mainstay. We must discover what chemical substances in food, if any, can give intelligence, courage and alertness to the inhabitants of a city. Can we feed to produce nervous strength and agility in the same way we have learned...
...Prohibition most U. S. drinkers came to regard "fusel oil" as an ingredient of unsavory whiskey and a cause of bad hangovers. Alluding to this idea with some irony last week, Industrial Chemist W. B. D. Penniman of Baltimore stated that fusel oil is the collective name for six complex alcohols which are the most important factor in determining the flavor of good whiskey. Usually they are present in percentages of only a few tenths of 1%. When a customer sued an Irish distiller for damages to his health from drinking whiskey which, he claimed, contained one quarter...
...President Mikhail Kalinin as "the bitterest enemies of the Soviet Union, leagued in a conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet Government-men who have stooped so low that they have lost their human aspect!" A clerk at Judge Ulrich's elbow read rapidly an indictment of the accused so complex that his swift sentences left spectators blurred as to details. Quite clear, though, were the main charges that the 16 prisoners had contrived among themselves at least four separate plots to kill Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the Communist Party and as such Dictator of Russia. It was announced that...